While wildfires generally flame upwards — quickly consuming forest and grassland — the increasingly intense blazes of recent years move downward, where they smolder flamelessly below the ...

Furthermore, by knocking down trees and maintaining grasslands, Colossal says, mammoths will help slow snowmelt, ensuring Arctic ecosystems absorb less sunlight. Elephants—widely described as ...

Arctic foxes and wolves stalk lemmings and ... For the last 100,000 years of that epoch, extensive grasslands ringed the northerly latitudes of the globe. Known as the mammoth steppe, they made ...

A new study has provided fresh insights into how animals such as the woolly mammoth, musk ox and arctic fox evolved to ...

Yes, you read that right. Here’s how: Ecosystem Engineering: Woolly mammoths grazed on Arctic tundras, preventing tree growth and maintaining grasslands. Reviving them could restore the region ...